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Advanced Concepts in Search Management
This three-day course serves as both a refresher and an update on the latest "Search Theory" and strategies for land search operations. The pre-requisite for attendance (strictly enforced) to this training is the 5-day introductory basic search management course. This training also includes 2 to 3 advanced tabletop map exercises depending on local capabilities and needs. The first several hours of 
this course consists of a general review of search management fundamentals and theory from the basic course. After that, the program explores more advanced concepts, forms and field strategy experiments to establish sweep width values, probability distribution mapping and tracking of the Probability Of Success factor.
Course Content
- Review of Search Management Basics
- Search Theory: Historical Review, Update & Definitions
- Current Update on Lost Subject Behavior
- Proportional Consensus & Its Importance to Establishing the Search Area
- Probability Density, Segment Size & Use of Templates
- Probability Distribution Mapping
- Aerial support with Digital Mapping, Aerial Photography & Segment Designation
- Decision Points in Trail-Based POAs
- Review of Research & Field Experiments for Establishing POD
- Sweep Width Data & Establishing PODs for Local Areas
- Practical Application of Search Theory Concepts
- Review of Shifting POA
- Tracking POS for the Segment & the Overall Search
- Scenario Analysis
- Special New Resources & Their Application to Search Management
- New Search Concepts for the Urban Environment
- Review of Current Software Programs Available for Portable Computers
- Also two or three new tabletop map problems to emphasize the use of these new concepts.